The day in photos, December 16, 2010 December 16, 2010

The day in photos, December 16, 2010

"Um, why don't you stay over there," Haley Harrington, a KU sophomore, seems to be saying to the Free Hugs guy spotted on campus Tuesday.

Special to the Journal-World

Sully, 5, an Australian Shepherd from Sturbridge, Mass., visits students Tuesday on the Tufts University Campus in Medford, Mass. Sully and three other dogs visited the campus in an effort to help students reduce their stress during final exam period.

Photo by Gretchen Ertl - AP Photo

A sow polar bear rests with her cubs on pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska in this undated file photo. If the world dramatically changes its steadily increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, global warming can be slowed enough to prevent a total loss of critical summer sea ice for the polar bears, according to a new study in the journal Nature released Wednesday.

Photo by Steve Amstrup - U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service Photo

A mariachi band greets the UTEP football team as it arrives Wednesday at the Sheraton Hotel in Albuquerque, N.M. UTEP will face BYU Saturday in the season’s first bowl game, the New Mexico Bowl.

Sergio Salvador/AP Photo

A salt truck from the Lawrence Public Works Department passes the News Center, 645 New Hampshire, as it heads out to treat Lawrence street Dec. 15, 2010. A line of freezing drizzle moved through during rush hour causing dozens of accidents.

Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical work the scene of a two vehicle accident west of Lawrence on US Highway 40 about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday. One person was transported after being extracted from truck.